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French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament

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The left has scored well in the first round of French parliamentary elections, leaving the Socialist party within reach of an absolute majority that would give François Hollande, the president, a free hand in his approach to dealing with the economic crisis.The Socialists need 289 out of the 577 seats in the national assembly to take an absolute majority in the final runoff on Sunday 17 June.
This would ensure Hollande has backing for his delicate balancing act of cutting the deficit while attempting to boost growth.
First-round results show the Socialists are predicted to take between 275 and 315 seats, according to polling company TNS Sofres, and could make up the numbers with the backing of their electoral allies, the Greens.
This means Hollande is less likely to be forced to chase the support of the hardline leftist Front de Gauche and Communists, who oppose him on certain key issues such as deficit cuts and the minimum wage, and which would have made for a tricky alliance.
But although a Socialist absolute majority remains a possibility, it is far from a certainty. Socialist candidates are preparing for a tough fight in the final week of campaigning to bring voters out to the ballot boxes, after a record low first round turnout of 57%.
The first round vote results suggest that the broad left will dominate parliament. Early results and estimates showed the left in general taking 47%, the right 35% and the far-right Front National 13%.
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Read more @: French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament | World news | guardian.co.uk

Well it looks like France will be turning to the left again. Might have the power to do whatever they want to create a more strong social democratic society. I was hopping for the Socialist Party to unite with the Communist Party and look for their support but that does not look like its going to happen.

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So, will France become the first nation to have a successful socialistic economy?

Anybody taking bets on this?
 
Dittohead not! said:
So, will France become the first nation to have a successful socialistic economy?

Anybody taking bets on this?
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Sense they are not running on a socialist platform im going to have to say no.
 
Dittohead not! said:
So, will France become the first nation to have a successful socialistic economy?

Anybody taking bets on this?
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How would you define success for France? Perhaps if they can achieve the 75 % tax rate, that sure would make Obama envious!
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament | World news | guardian.co.uk

Well it looks like France will be turning to the left again. Might have the power to do whatever they want to create a more strong social democratic society. I was hopping for the Socialist Party to unite with the Communist Party and look for their support but that does not look like its going to happen.

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I think this bodes well for Obama if he can figure out how to let the French vote in Nov.
 
Dittohead not! said:
So, will France become the first nation to have a successful socialistic economy?

Anybody taking bets on this?
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Baby steps. Most likely there will just be a couple of reforms. Hopefully they'll be good ones.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament | World news | guardian.co.uk

Well it looks like France will be turning to the left again. Might have the power to do whatever they want to create a more strong social democratic society. I was hopping for the Socialist Party to unite with the Communist Party and look for their support but that does not look like its going to happen.

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You mean more to the left, correct?
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament | World news | guardian.co.uk

Well it looks like France will be turning to the left again. Might have the power to do whatever they want to create a more strong social democratic society. I was hopping for the Socialist Party to unite with the Communist Party and look for their support but that does not look like its going to happen.

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If they get the absolute majority... it's all on them. I'd like to see how they work with that and what they do in light of the euro's status and all.
 
washunut said:
I think this bodes well for Obama if he can figure out how to let the French vote in Nov.
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Two posts in this thread and two drive-by pot-shots. Any reality-based posts you'd like to make on the topic?
 
Tigger said:
Just another reason not to have anything to do with France in any way...... Politically, Socially, Economically, etc....
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I disagree. So long as there are strong interests that justify such collaboration--and there are--it will continue regardless of whether France has a conservative or socialist government or the U.S. had a Republican or Democratic government.
 
donsutherland1 said:
I disagree. So long as there are strong interests that justify such collaboration--and there are--it will continue regardless of whether France has a conservative or socialist government or the U.S. had a Republican or Democratic government.
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You are absolutely correct that it Will continue. I'm simply saying that it SHOULDN'T continue.
 
Ben K. said:
Thing is, the actual Sino's are socialists in name only. ;)
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I had to think about that one for a while, but you're right. The Sinos were a lot easier to compete with when they actually were socialists making their 'great leaps forward" from time to time.
 
So they want a 75% tax rate on the top earners in the country? Is that correct? If so, that would incentivize people to succeed financially how? Or, is that just their way of saying that they hate financially successful people?
 
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So they want a 75% tax rate on the top earners in the country? Is that correct? If so, that would incentivize people to succeed financially how? Or, is that just their way of saying that they hate financially successful people?
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High income tax on upper-class doesn't mean they pay it. There are still loads of write-offs and also it tends to reroute their finances away from pocketing their business' stock options and keeping it in investments and makes them spend more in business development.
 
It is an interesting change of events. Traditionally, the main left and right wing parties have endorsed each other to keep Front National out of the parliament. Yes the Front National does not have any members of parliament. However this time around the right wing has broken that agreement. They have said not to vote at all... however some individual right wingers in the districts have broken rank and told their voters to actually vote for the Front National! So we very well can have Front National in the French lower house for the first time since a decade plus. But I doubt that it will change the end result of an absolute majority for the left.
 
Saw this today...


French Socialists win absolute parliament majority

French President Francois Hollande's Socialists won a resounding parliamentary majority on Sunday, strengthening his hand as he presses euro zone paymaster Germany to support debt-laden states weighed down by austerity cuts and ailing banks.

The Socialist Party and its affiliates secured 307 seats in the parliamentary election runoff, according to the final count for mainland France, comfortably more than the 289 needed for a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly.

The left-wing triumph means Hollande, elected in May, won't need to rely on the environmentalist Greens, who won 16 seats, or the Communist-dominated Left Front, with 10 deputies, to pass laws. The centre-left already controls the upper house of parliament, the Senate.

The leftward swing gives the Socialists more power than they have ever held as Hollande pushes for new tools to stimulate growth in the sickly euro zone and a European banking union that would protect depositors and states if banks fail.​
 
This will be the 754th time socialism has been tried and failed.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
Read more @: French Socialists on course to score absolute majority in parliament | World news | guardian.co.uk

Well it looks like France will be turning to the left again. Might have the power to do whatever they want to create a more strong social democratic society. I was hopping for the Socialist Party to unite with the Communist Party and look for their support but that does not look like its going to happen.

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France is screwed. We'll be bailing them out in a few years.
 
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